Audience behaviour in Shakespeare’s London
An essay about theatregoing experiences in London around 1600 (Andrew Gurr)

Bath Chronicle Georgian Newspaper Project
Searchable database of information from the Bath Chronicle 1770-1800 (Bath & North East Somerset Council)

City, capital, and metropolis: the changing shape of seventeenth-century London
essay by Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck ePrints)
In Imagining early modern London: perceptions and portrayals of the city from Stow to Strype, 1598 -1720 (Cambridge UP, 2001)

Controlling a complex metropolis, 1650-1750:politics, parishes and powers
article by Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck ePrints)
From London Journal, 26:1 (2001).

Dartford 1500-1800
With sections on population, industry, religion among others in a southern English market town, an excellent local history site (Dartford Archive)

A Day in 18th-century London
Includes extracts from Swift, Addison, The Tatler, Smollett, Boswell: vivid and illuminating materials providing insights into the city (Norton Topics Online)

Dutch City Maps
Seventeenth-century town and city maps (George Welling)

Early Modern Chester 1550-1762
A useful outline of the city’s history, with sections including politics, social conditions, economic regulation (G C F Forster)

The Early Modern City
Bibliography (Gilbert Stelter)

Early Modern English Towns
Extensive bibliography (Joseph P Ward)

Early Modern English Towns
A bibliographical essay (Joseph P Ward)

Epidemic Disease in London
collection of seminar papers, most focused on the early modern period, including a number on the plague; from a Symposium held in 1992 (Institute of Historical Research)

John Rocque’s 1746 Map of London
digital edition of Rocque’s 26 inch to the mile map of London, Westminster and Southwark, fully indexed (Motco)

London’s disreputable south bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
article by Jessica A Browner, examining Southwark’s notorious reputation during the early modern period, a shady world of petty crime, alehouses and prostitution (U. Virginia)
From Essays in History, 36 (1994)

The Map of Early Modern London
interactive map of “the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London”, with a wealth of supporting material (Janelle Jansted)

Occupations in Eighteenth-century Bradford
Essay on the range of occupations in the town (Elvira Willmott)

Lieux d’échange 1300-1800
website for an international academic initiative to investigate “perceptions of space in premodern Europe, with reference both to contemporary awareness and modern theoretical approaches”. Includes bibliography, links and resources (Beat Kumin et al)

Reformation and culture 1540-1700
essay by Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck ePrints)
chapter in The Cambridge urban history of Britain. Volume II: 1540-1840 (Cambridge UP, 2000)

Scottish towns
An early set of maps of Scottish towns, illustrating “special characteristics that made a town a town” (National Library of Scotland)

John Strype’s Survey of London Online
full-text electronic edition of John Strype’s 1720 Survey of London, complete with its maps and plates, as well as an introductory essay and bibliography (The Stuart London Project)

The Festive Renaissance
Webpage based on an exhibition of early modern ceremonies, festivities and processions in early illustrated books (Folger Institute)

Time and work in eighteenth-century London
essay by Hans-Joachim Voth on working hours, using a database created from witness accounts in the Old Bailey Proceedings (U. Oxford)
Discussion papers in economic and social history, 21 (1997)

Tour of London 1753
This site accompanied an exhibition (and book) of 2003, looking at five areas of the city in the mid-eighteenth centur through prints and drawings (British Museum)

Tudor Hackney
Based on a ‘virtual reality’ reconstruction of a house in Hackney at the end of the Tudor period, this gives local history background, a ‘tour’ of the house and area, the story of the owners in 1601 (who fell foul of the law), a picture gallery, and the 1601 inventory, with illustrations of the listed goods (The National Archives)